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... the jelly-fishes exhibit, accrdig to Haecie}, tire chief types. There is firstly indect development, in which the egg of the jelly-fish, settling down. i gives origin to a polyp or plantlike creature, or nurse, from which the young jelly-fishes of the ...

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... inhabitants of an aquarium with the point of his gold pencil, in the apparent hope of getting up intimate relations with a jelly-fish. He would beguile the golded inmates of a crystal globe by tearing up minute fragments of one of his visiting cards, and ...

CHRISTIMAS BOOKS

... animal kingdom, whose forms or habits are remarkable. The reader is conducted to the homnes of the frog, the newt, the jelly-fish, the crab, the dolphin, the seal, tc., shown how they conduot themselves there, and told amus- ing stories about them. The ...

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... referring to. And I t Miia w WeRi-y coingratulate our gallant countryman thsta aszoliz,-h bewas unforttsnately Sttung by ia jelly-fish, lie was VW& Nmeor tIhe neOossity of slaying nilsne nicke'rs, nor of rki- wnf2s,_1 Beowvulf is salid to have done, for ...

THE MAGAZINES

... Gladstone and must have its fling, but it may live tosee that Liberals are not so supine as it chooses to assert. The jelly-fish politicians - who are so transparent, it says, that one can see there is nothing in them - may be flabby and helpless ...

THE JANUARY MAGAZINES

... possessed by numerous and widely separated members os the animal A kingdom. The phenomenon has been ob- lo served in the jelly-fish, the sea-anemone, B the microscopic rotifer, the sea-pen, the star-fish, many marine wormi, certain species of crabs, various ...

LITERATURE

... imagiation of the poet. With the inhabitarts of mountain, forest, and loch, from the eagle to the wr`q from the seaJ to the jelly-fish, whether regular residenters of the locality or only fleeting visitors, Mr Smith seems to be on terms of intimate acquaintance ...

LITERATURE

... essays, as we ?? have said, are popular, and treat of many *d subjects. He tells us much about fishes and ie fishing, about jelly.fish, sponges, coral, oysters, i- pearls, and seals. He treats of animals in their ig relation to man, of extinct animals, and ...

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... geiseral, and tlse heat of the sun in particular; thence everytibimg - erratic biosks, masarble, coal, chalk, protoplasmia, jelly-fish, turtlo-soup, chab-feet, wooden legs, Bengtid tigerE, Shakespeare's plays, Bain's Logic, &c. The s cause of nil these is ...

THE MAGAZINES

... loads of inedusce to his fields for manure, but few are aware that, according to Proiessor Owen's estimate, the ?? in a jellyfish weighling 21b. amount to about 30 grains, thus giving about 41b. of solid matter to thc toln. The Valley of the Amnbleve ...

Weekly Journal Magazine

... student, to the con- sternation of the profesi', who did not appreciate jokes, that he -knew a man whose sister had a tame jellyfish which. would sit up Ad 4beg.- From Reminiscences of Oxford, bjy Rev. W. Tocekwell, Ml.A. Etn UXtnrivallcb ltuwter While ...

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... objects delineatei vere sharks, dolphi oh, dugoug, turtle, boomnerans, waddles, shields, soomerahs, pigs, dogs, bird's, jellyfish, I t$\ ?? se of the Alert : Fo',r Ymeaai i' r aoseiait rly- &%Sioa, and Maca ene WAdne's. iSiS 8g f;y li. M .kooppinse, itw ...